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Writers as Readers: Essays in Honor of Thomas R. Hart

Writers as Readers: Essays in Honor of Thomas R. Hart COMPARATIVE LITERATURE /2 bly determined by the specific conditions of particular cultural moments. Those fortunate enough to have studied with him will recall with affection his dry wit and exacting standards in every aspect of coursework—and the deep and abiding love of words that shone through every textual reading. They will also remember his eclectic tastes, the impressive breadth and depth of his reading, his love of music and of dogs, and his ability to unpack the complexities of Renaissance drama through the deconstruction of Road Runner cartoons. Labels can mislead, but the breadth and character of his work, with its evident love of letters, places him within the traditions of Romance Philology as practiced by two of his intellectual mentors, Erich Auerbach and Leo Spitzer, about whom he has written eloquently—but never uncritically—on more than one occasion (see, for example, the four articles C2: 82-89, F35, F44, and F59). These studies are symptomatic of Tom’s abiding interest in the construction of literary traditions and critical disciplines, which can be traced back to his Yale Ph.D. on the early nineteenth-century literary historiography of Spain.1 This research bore fruit in his first publications from the 1950s, on Bouterwek, Sismondi, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Comparative Literature Duke University Press

Writers as Readers: Essays in Honor of Thomas R. Hart

Jewers, Caroline; Weiss, Julian
Comparative Literature , Volume 60 (1) – Jan 1, 2008
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COMPARATIVE LITERATURE /2 bly determined by the specific conditions of particular cultural moments. Those fortunate enough to have studied with him will recall with affection his dry wit and exacting standards in every aspect of coursework—and the deep and abiding love of words that shone through every textual reading. They will also remember his eclectic tastes, the impressive breadth and depth of his reading, his love of music and of dogs, and his ability to unpack the complexities of Renaissance drama through the deconstruction of Road Runner cartoons. Labels can mislead, but the breadth and character of his work, with its evident love of letters, places him within the traditions of Romance Philology as practiced by two of his intellectual mentors, Erich Auerbach and Leo Spitzer, about whom he has written eloquently—but never uncritically—on more than one occasion (see, for example, the four articles C2: 82-89, F35, F44, and F59). These studies are symptomatic of Tom’s abiding interest in the construction of literary traditions and critical disciplines, which can be traced back to his Yale Ph.D. on the early nineteenth-century literary historiography of Spain.1 This research bore fruit in his first publications from the 1950s, on Bouterwek, Sismondi,

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